On Page Search Engine Optimization Factors Do They Matter?
Let’s hop into our Internet time machine and take a trip. Today we’re headed back in time to 2000 in Internet time, that seems like 100 years ago. Youre an SEO expert and you want to write a book on how to get to the top of search engines what do you talk about? Meta tags are definitely on the way out. Links help but this is cutting edge stuff not the basis of your book. So you talk about keyword density. You say if you want to get ranked highly for a specific term, you need to have that in your title and you need to have it show up towards the top of your page, and in other parts of the page and have your page be keyword dense for your chosen topic. And Im not talking about 1-3% keyword density 100% keyword density for a word actually worked for some phrases.
Ahh, the memories. The days when keyword density actually mattered.
Back to late 2006. Keyword density is dead. DEAD! In fact the question comes up if its even important what content is actually on your webpage or if it all depends on links.
Lets take some famous examples first go to http://google.com and type in the...